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Drug battles and school achievement: evidence from Rio de Janeiro's favelas
(CAF, 2013)
This paper examines the effects of armed conflicts between drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas on student achievement. To identify the causal effect of violence on education, we explore variation in violence that occurs ...
Job training, selection and self discovery
(CAF, 2013)
We randomly assign 1250 unemployed men and women to be invited once or twice to a specific-skills training program offered by a large multinational firm as part of its social responsibility efforts. Individuals with the ...